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Nonetheless, Parham was a sympathizer for the Ku Klux Klan and even preached for them. Scandal and decline of influence. Another blow to his influence in the young Pentecostal movement were allegations of sexual misconduct in fall 1906.
In 1906 after attending shortly a Bible school founded by Charles Parham (who, despite his ministry career, was a Ku Klux Klan supporter) in Houston, Texas Seymour felt called by God to pastor a church in Los Angeles.
Charles Fox Parham (1873–1929) was an American preacher and evangelist and one of the central figures in the emergence of American Pentecostalism. It was Parham who first claimed that speaking in tongues was the inevitable evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
I recommend Charles Fox Parham to Pentecostal readers. It is well-researched and clearly written. Most importantly, it is a model of gracious truth-telling about an important figure in our history. Book Reviewed. Larry Martin, Charles Fox Parham: The Unlikely Father of Modern Pentecostalism (New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 2022).
The "father of American Pentecostalism," Charles Parham, continued to endorse the Ku Klux Klan as late as 1927, Robeck said. Breaking with the past: PFNA board members demonstrated...
Parham, Charles Fox (1873-1929) American Pentecostal Pioneer and Founder of the Apostolic Faith Movement. Born in Muscatine, Iowa, Parham was converted in 1886 and enrolled to prepare for ministry at Southwestern Kansas College, a Methodist institution.
Started Own Ministry. By 1895, Parham broke with Methodism—in fact, all denominationalism—for good. He started his own independent evangelical ministry in Kansas, where he held revival meetings that emphasized personal salvation. He also advocated a return to the fundamental teachings of the scriptures, or "primitive Christianity."
